- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Try It. . .
- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. ! !
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. - A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
- if you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. CoOL
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- China has more English speakers than the United States .
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
- child reaches 2-6 years of age.
- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
- it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- Polar bears are left-handed.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank
#1 for animal having the most taste buds. - A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves
to death. - Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals
that can't jump. - An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Starfish haven't got brains.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey .
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Amazing facts
These are some amazing facts which many people may or may not know!!
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